October 21, 2009
CUBS HIRE JARAMILLO AS HITTING COACH
by Bruce Levine, ESPNChicago.com
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February 11, 2010
Spring brings rebirth for Cubs hitters
Club counting on Jaramillo to get talented bats back on track
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February 13, 2010
Jaramillo Among Top Aides
by Phil Rogers, Chicago Tribune
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February 15, 2010
Rudy Jaramillo is Cubs' Mr. Fix-It
by Gordon Wittenmyer, Chicago Sun-Times
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February 16, 2010
Jaramillo Hits Ground Running at Camp
by Carrie Muskat, MLB.com
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February 20, 2010
by Doug Miller, MLB.com
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  Excerpt:  Rudy Jaramillo, hitting coach, Chicago Cubs:
     The brand-new offensive mastermind tasked with getting the Cubs back to the postseason has big shoes to fill. Fortunately, he's been wearing pretty big shoes, himself, for quite a while now.
     Jaramillo comes to the Windy City after a Major League-leading 15-year stint as hitting coach for the Texas Rangers, and he's garnered a serious reputation as one of the best in the business. Now, he has a new challenge, with the Cubs having ranked second in the Major Leagues in runs scored in 2008 but not coming close to that level in 2009. Chicago finished 10th in the NL in runs scored and next-to-last with a .241 average with runners in scoring position.
     Jaramillo's first order of business might be trying to get Alfonso Soriano back to the level of success the slugging outfielder has enjoyed in the past. Soriano hit .241 last year with a career-low OBP of .301, but the two worked together when Soriano was a member of the Rangers in 2004 and 2005, and Soriano averaged 32 homers and more than 97 RBIs in those two seasons.
     If Jaramillo can work his magic with the Cubs, they could make a serious dent in the NL Central, the division they won in 2008 and were picked to win in '09. Despite the lack of offense, the Cubs hung in the race until September and still finished the year with an 83-78 record that left them in second place, 7 1/2 games behind the St. Louis Cardinals.
     Now they've got one of the game's true hitting gurus, and Jaramillo says he's ready to do his thing.
     "I always put myself as a teacher first, a coach second," Jaramillo said. "I have passion working with these young men. I love to see talent get better."